Intel Core i5-12500 vs Intel Xeon E-2176M

Compare Intel 12th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7166 points

98% significantly better overall score

3606 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9976 points

83% significantly better gaming score

5438 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6301 points

106% significantly better multitasking score

3050 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6099 points

108% significantly better heavy workload score

2927 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

170.78 points

94% significantly higher Blender score

87.69 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9112 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5044 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2182 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1415 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9032 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4813 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2320 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1367 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

25% slightly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

100% significantly more supported memory

64 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

182nd of 1,089

475th of 1,089

Family

The product line

12th Generation Core i5

Xeon E

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 February

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5-4800

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i5-12500 vs Xeon E-2176M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-12500 is faster than the Xeon E-2176M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Xeon E-2176M in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. The Xeon E-2176M outputs less heat than Core i5-12500 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-12500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.